Fair Work Australia has in an interim ruling rejected an employer argument that it does not have the power to make good faith bargaining orders delaying an employee ballot to approve an enterprise agreement.
A full court of the South Australian Supreme Court has found that a teacher's contract of employment did not contain an implied term of mutual trust and confidence because it was already heavily regulated, making such a term unnecessary. It has overturned his earlier damages payout of almost $400,000.
Management guru Jack Welch is wrong in claiming there is no such thing as work-life balance and that instead, there are work-life choices and consequences that flow from them, leading IR academic Barbara Pocock told a Workplace Research Centre conference in Sydney today.
It is early days yet, but telephone conciliation of unfair dismissal claims - part of the new, more informal dismissal process promised by the Federal Government - does not appear to have won many converts among practitioners.
Federal Court steps in to save "dysfunctional" HSU; Paramedics issue intensive care threat; Company fined $80,000 for AWA duress; and Hours worked down 35 million in past year: ABS
A tribunal has ordered a public transport provider to pay a bus driver $29,000 in compensation for refusing to employ him because it believed his health wasn’t good enough to safely perform his duties.
FWA makes good faith bargaining order to halt agreement vote; FWA publishes Cochlear decision; Union to fight employer bid for two-tier pay deal; and Tim Lee takes the reins at Fair Work Australia
Officials from three abolished NUW state branches will hold 12-month honorary roles in a new General branch, but the union's national committee will keep control over the purse strings, under a restructure proposal now on the verge of getting the green light from Fair Work Australia.
